Hive Tyrant - Wings, Lash Whip/Bonesword, Scything Talons, Paroxysm, Leech Essence, Hive Commander
Tervigon - Adrenal Glands, Toxin Sacs, Cluster Spines, Catalyst, Dominion
Hive Guard Brood - 3x Hive Guard
Zoanthrope Brood - 3x Zoanthropes, Mycetic Spore
Ymgarl Genestealer Brood - 9x Ymgarl Genestealers
Termagaunt Brood - 10x Termagants
Termagaunt Brood - 10x Termagants
Tervigon - Adrenal Glands, Toxin Sacs, Cluster Spines, Catalyst, Dominion
Tervigon - Adrenal Glands, Toxin Sacs, Cluster Spines, Catalyst, Dominion
Ravener Brood - 6x Raveners with Scything Talons
Trygon Prime - Adrenal Glands
Trygon Prime - Adrenal Glands
Tyrannofex - Rupture Cannon, Cluster Spines, Thorax Swarm(Dessicator Larvae)
2492 total
What I see this list doing is pushing one of the Tervigons to outflank(hopefully onto the opponent's weaker side), have the Hive Tyrant land near it. The Zoans come down in their pod and try to hit the priority target of the turn(for instance against Grey Knights(our FLGS has like 4 of them) their Psyfleman Dreads or Storm Ravens/Land Raiders), The Ymgarls try to pop out of the terrain that's going to disrupt the opponent's plans as much as possible, and the rest of the army rolls in on foot. I've hd a bit of a love/hate relationship with Deep Striking Trygons, but I dont rule out doing so if the opponent is not GK(I've never not rolled a 1 on Warp Quake).
Again, any advice/comments/constructive criticism is more than welcome.
WolfPack
Well, the first problem here is that it's a reserve list at 2500pts that only comes in on a 3+; that is really going to be limiting, because when you have ~1700pts of units on the table T2 and your opponent has 2500, they are going to punish you for it harshly. 'Ard Boyz is pretty much the one and only time you can afford to bring both a normal Tyrant and the Swarmlord to the party (and thus run a reasonable reserves list.) You also have an awkward mix of reserve and non-reserve units, which is pretty much asking for trouble.
With regards to Deep Striking Trygons, it really does depend a lot. If you are forced to take first turn, sometimes you just want them on the table to get that T2 charge, but this depends a lot on what guns the enemy has (in 'Ard Boyz there's often simply too much aimed at you) and what deployment type you're using- in Dawn of War you almost always want to DS them in, for example, but Pitched Battle is more forgiving; in Spearhead, simply walking in from reserves can be a decent strategy at times.
If I was going to try and run a reserves list, I'd probably do something very different from yours. Raveners are not really a top choice for such a list, despite their ability to pop out- they don't really do anything the rest of the list doesn't already do and they are very vulnerable when they show up.
2499 Tyranid list
1 Hive Tyrant (Wings, HVC, HC, Parox, Leech)
1 Swarmlord
2 Tyrant Guard
3 Zoanthropes (Spore)
3 Zoanthropes (Spore)
7 Ymgarl Genestealers
16 Termagants (Devourers; Spore)
15 Termagants (Devourers; Spore)
1 Tervigon (Cluster, Catalyst, Adrenal, Toxin)
1 Tervigon (Cluster, Catalyst, Adrenal, Toxin)
7 Genestealers (Toxin)
7 Genestealers (Toxin)
1 Trygon
Only one Trygon?! Only one Trygon, just not room for any more. The important thing to note here is that virtually everything is useful the turn it arrives- Genestealers and the outflanking Tervigon can assault, Devgaunts and Zoanthropes shoot, etc. It also brings 6+ scoring units to the party, which ends up being a reasonable count. The two HQs are most awkward part of things, as the Swarmlord has to come in walksies and the Flyrant is gonna take a lot of fire on the turn it drops, but c'est la vie.
In terms of the scenarios, the lack of outflank in mission #2 is going to be really annoying, but livable- reserve anyways and aim to shrug off two turns of shooting at the beginning and one at the end (thanks to Night Fight), which should help some. In Scenario #3 you can make your Tyrant Guard your "general," meaning you only give up an extra 120VP there- not ideal, but better than most people can do. That mission is otherwise pretty nice for you, since you can push forward the Swarmlord, a Tervigon, and a squad of 'Stealers, leaving the enemy very few "safe" places from your assaults.
Facing a lot of GK is going to be very, very harsh for your Tyranids no matter what you do. Your best bet is simply to aim for alpha strikes- you want to hit them where it hurts, because GK do not have very good survivability on most of their units. Lay a ton of wounds on the squad and watch them fold and die like any other Marine, because if they can hit you back at full force you WILL die.
